Título: Oscar Wilde A Life in Letters
Autor: Merlin Holland
Sinopse: Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best. Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best. Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most brilliant. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not desert him. In this beautifully produced volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with an illuminating commentary. Together they form the closest thing we shall ever have to Wilde's own memoir.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Oscar Wilde A Life in Letters”, de Merlin Holland, publicado pela editora Fourth Estate, em 2003 e com 384 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Fourth Estate
Páginas: 384
Ano: 2003
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0007161034
ISBN13: 9780007161034
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Fourth Estate costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura que mescla rigor histórico e narrativa envolvente, com atenção a detalhes humanos e sociais pouco explorados. Muitas obras revelam personagens em contextos complexos, como a vida cotidiana na era vitoriana ou os dilemas contemporâneos de famílias e comunidades urbanas. O catálogo sugere um equilíbrio entre textos que trazem humor sutil e crítica social, e outros que exploram temas densos como luto, identidade e conflitos políticos, sempre com linguagem acessível e ritmo que varia do contemplativo ao tenso. A diversidade editorial inclui desde romances epistolares e investigações criminais até reflexões sobre alimentação e métodos organizacionais, indicando uma abertura para estilos narrativos variados, mas com foco em histórias que provocam reflexão.
